This article studies the scenography designed by José Manuel Castanheira for El alcalde de Zalamea (2000) by Calderón de la Barca, a play by the National Classical Theatre Company directed by Sergi Belbel. The scenography has been conceived as a micro geography, inspired in Zalamea’s orography, with a strong pictorial component which defines every scenic design of Castanheira. This play is compared to its antecedent, El alcalde de Zalamea (1988) directed by José Luis Alonso Mañes, and with the two later versions directed by Eduardo Vasco in the 2010 and Helena Pimenta in the 2015 which contributed to consolidate Castanheira’s scenography as one of the most original and controversial play in the history of the National Classical Theatre Company.
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This article studies the scenography designed by José Manuel Castanheira for El alcalde de Zalamea (2000) by Calderón de la Barca, a play by the National Classical Theatre Company directed by Sergi Belbel. The scenography has been conceived as a micro geography, inspired [...]
José Manuel Castanheira y el espacio escénico como microgeografía en «El alcalde de Zalamea» (2000), un montaje de la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico 